| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, plates |
| Contents |
Part 1: Of things past -- Roses and nightingales -- Land of fars -- Dream city -- A new world -- Love and politics -- Homecoming -- Age of innocence -- Spellbound -- Our house -- A false stability -- Gathering storm -- Uneasy summer -- Writing on the wall -- End of an era -- Revolution! -- Farewell youth -- Part 2: Exile -- Displaced -- Café de la Paix -- After Khomeini -- Reunion -- The Shah's ghost -- Part 3: Witnesses and survivors -- Past errors -- Whirlwind -- Night of the generals -- Sentimental journey -- Father and son -- Soraya -- Persepolis revisited -- Ex-ambassador -- No regrets -- Palace witnesses -- Master of ceremonies -- Security of the realm -- The diplomat -- The general's widow -- Khosrowdad -- Blue eyes -- Hoveyda's end -- The last empress -- Epilogue -- Sources and bibliography -- Photographic credits -- Index |
| Summary |
"In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's Box. Haunted by nostalgia for a bygone era, he recalled a protected and idyllic childhood in the fabled city of Shiraz and his coming of age during the 1979 Iranian revolution. Back in London, he reflected on what had happened to him and his family after their uprooting and decided to conduct his own investigation into why he lost his country. He spent the next ten years seeking out witnesses who would shed light on the last days of Pahlavi rule. Among those he met were a former empress, ex-courtiers, disaffected revolutionaries, and the bereaved relatives of those who perished in the cataclysm. In Farewell Shiraz, Kadivar tells the story of his family and childhood against the tumultuous backdrop of twentieth-century Iran, from the 1905-1907 Constitutional Revolution to the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, before presenting accounts of his meetings with key witnesses to the Shah's fall and the rise of Khomeini. Each of the people interviewed provides a richly detailed picture of the momentous events that took place and the human drama behind them. Combining exquisite vignettes with rare testimonials and first-hand interviews, Farewell Shiraz draws us into a sweeping yet often intimate account of a vanished world and offers a compelling investigation into a political earthquake whose reverberations still live with us today"--Amazon.com |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 27, 2018) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Iran.
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Iran -- History -- 1941-1979
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Iran -- History -- 21st century
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Iran -- Social life and customs
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Shīrāz (Iran) -- History
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| Subject |
Iran
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Iran -- Shīrāz
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781617977954 |
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1617977950 |
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1617977969 |
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9781617977961 |
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